A "C:\" prompt means you have booted DOS, not Puppy. I think you just need to delete the "command.com" file from the flash memory, but I'm no expert. It may take more than that to make your USB stick boot. Someone who knows more than I do will probably be along soon, to set you straight. Last edited by Flash on Tue 30 Aug 2005, 01:29; edited 1 time in total

I've tried syslinux 2.11 and 3.11 - not sure if i did it right though
syslinux [-s] c: - c becuase that is what my usb reboots to - just that a c: prompt
I type in dir and see the necessary three files
something needs me to type in a command to launch the application
I can't even use the freemsdos floppy due to errors upon booting

Does anyone have any ideas of what to do from here?
I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem
I've also tried using makeboot, syslinux, hp usb boot program
I'll be home for the next two days
to try and figure this out
once I'm successful, I'll write a how to doc on this

Also..you what to delete all those directories and 'GTKDIFFR' that showed up. You just need these four files:

image.gz
vmlinux
usr_cram.fs
pupxusb

when it runs correctly it will make a file called pup100, this is a virtual drive with all that other stuff in it. The pup100 file you will want to back up to your main computer after you set it up real nice. I've corrupted mine numerous times. Since it runs in ram it can grow bigger than the size you have allotted for in your config file. If it is too big and writes back, it's corrupted and you have to start over. If this happens, you can just copy your pup100 backup, back over to the usb device.

Also, don't shutdown with a large share mounted, that will kill it also (in the manner described above).

Watch that my values aren't too big for your hardware. Watch the ramdisk_size and the PFILE size (last param [it should be ok, as is, for a 512 stick]). Also remove the PKEYS if you aren't going to use a US keyboard. You can turn PSLEEP down to 5 if you have USB 2.0.

...and last but not least. Hang in there, it really does work. I was having second thoughts at first, but did get it going finally. Worst case scenario, I can post a floppy image for you.

Ok, maybe it's not the way I want to boot up, but it works
I have to use the combination of a boot floppy and my usb key
The weird thing is that I can format with dos to the usb and get a c prompt
So this usb key is bootable

Another thing is that I went a different route
I tried another flavor of Linux - Damnsmalllinix
A person in their IRC chatroom walked me through the whole process
We had two choices during the format and copy files processes
usb zip drive and usb hdd - the one that worked was usb hdd

There was mention that we can substitute some of their files and replace them with the puppy files.

I'm going to try and find a way to just boot off of the usb key - there has got to be a way

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